Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

Occasions

Making a debut within Save-Point is the collective known as JadedPhoenixStudios. A dedicated account used by a collective for projects made by their new company as a whole Welcomed by KDC, MetalRenard and DerVVulfman who apparently recognized some of the members immediately, ZanderFrae shot back thanks and salutations.

An acrobatic artist going by the nom de guerre of umbralshadows has appeared. He loves visual novels and already began working on games as his first project won a 1-week Game Jam contest, a link to which he posted almost immediately. And almost immeditately, DerVVulfman asked of him to post what he will, while MetalRenard enjoyed the artwork he posted.

Though Sicand created an account to access our scripts library, he wished to thank our community for being a stable host for RPGMaker XP resources. He was welcomed by umbralshadows, Bounty Hunter Lani, DerVVulfman and MetalRenard.

Were you aware that KDC was able to block a spambot on the Playstation Network? If you hadn't before, then it may be What's on your mind right now. As for right now, umbralshadows is stuck in a hospital, unable to do much save for some art work on his notebook computer. For those aware of his recent youtube video posts, lestat3187 is very much into anime. And as such, is monitoring production companies and when they finally get the rights to produce shows like Cardcaptor Sakura and Negima. Meanwhile, both Bounty Hunter Lani and MetalRenard have a thing for fine food and cooking shows such those by Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver.

One may wish to take a break from game development, but if you ask Bounty Hunter Lani the question of "What are YouTubing?", even the rock music she listened too has a action game-like quality. DerVVulfman posted a pair of music videos which were the inspiration for the First Person motion picture experience of "Hardcore Harry". And lestat3179 returned twice with clips from a comic school anime, the first an homage to Police Academy from 1984 and the second an unexpected kiss gone so left field.

Tech Talk

The latest version of Firefox now prevents flash games from working. However, lestat3179 unveiled the SWF fix for Firefox 55 which was discovered by Raigner on the Fenoxo forums.

Games Development

Development Discussion

If you were wondering What's Up with your fellow RPG Making friends, you'll learn that kyonides has been developing the GOSU portions of his KUnits system while continuing his own work with qtbindings rubyjem which he worked with when he was developing KyoJournal XP. Meanwhile, umbralshadows just acquired pokemon essentials for an homage to pokemon.

Upcoming Projects

After reading replies towards the visuals LunarBerry posted last week for Yesteryear, Siletrea wished to assure MetalRenard that general beeps would not be used to break their game's immersion. And towards kyonides, she wished to inform him that work is already underway to replace any trace of a XAS-like appearance while adding they have hopes for a playable demo fairly soon.

The newly rebranded company of JadedPhoenixStudios unveiled their first commercial project in our forum, that being Cry of the Dead. This game, crafted with RPGMaker VXAce puts one within Valkyr, a world of superstition and fear. And for the lead character of Dacian, fear follows him as he is unable to fully control the power that dwells deep within him, a power not seen in typical humans. However, he and his friends from his home town of Mori may be what's needed to face the coming dangers.

Having a visual novel presented in Save-Point is a rare thing. Having one that was based upon true events is another. And that is what umbralshadows has given us with Aibou, a visual novel made with RPGMaker MV. The winner of a 6-Day Game Jam contest, you follow the events of Umber Johanson an acrobat whose life is changed forever after a chance encounter with a daredevil that becomes something more. Fully voiced, the game features up to 5 hours of gameplay and multiple endings, while including animated scenes and custom graphics.

Inspired by the new feature within Siletrea and LunarBerry's own project thread, Bounty Hunter Lani added a new Project Log for her game, Destiny of End. Hard at work, she had been shuffling all her online graphics to a new account in Imgur given Photobucket's new policies which have damaged many posts worldwide. Bounty Hunter Lani has also been working on her game's story and character development, while working to tie it together with another story in her game's world. Along with that, she added a teaser pic of a thickly layered fog that is sweeping over the land, while delivering some flavor text about the mysterious Fog of Death.

Material Development

Scripts Database

This week, kyonides uploaded the latest GOSU package for KUnits and related features such as KUnitsAchieve and KUnitsFoes. So be on the lookout for a functional Change Unit menu, an enhanced Bestiary, a team following system, a newly added chests system, and much more. Stylized, the demo features a map name feature utilizing a "Western Town" sign style, and new screenshots of his map location, bestiary and chests/containers feature have been added to his most recent posts.

DoubleX discovered that his Action Cost plugin for RPGMaker MV prevented items and skills from being usable outside of battle, a bug he just eradicated.

Resources Database

After MetalRenard's starting post about Lots of free SFX! on the net, kyonides added another website by the name of soundjay.com with numerous sound effects and a set of terms for the users to read.

A new set of anime-styled faces have been granted us by umbralshadows as free art for use, just as long as due credit to umbra johanson/umbralshadows is given,

Creativity Section

Art and Design

A series of new soft palette images have been released as an art dump entitled umbra's arts. Be ready for soft brushed versions of pikachu, a blue dragon with dragonfly wings, and green pocky tea.

Well, that's it for this week.

"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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